Portfolio Delivery Lead

Join a team at the heart of the global economy! The Department for Business and Trade ("DBT") and Inspire People are partnering to bring an exciting opportunity for an experienced Delivery Lead who will be responsible for running the Delivery Community across the Business Growth Portfolio.

Salary: £67,138 to £87,000 (including allowances) London £70,500 to £87,000, National £67,138 to £85,189. Salary is dependent on location and technical skills as assessed at interview.

Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Belfast, Birmingham, Salford and Edinburgh.

Job description

You will work with the Portfolio Service Owner and Product Lead, and be jointly responsible for:

• running the delivery community - supporting delivery managers in the mission teams, information sharing and upskilling when necessary
• optimising the platform's delivery approach, identifying and resolving blockers and dependencies across multiple workstream, and ensuring best-practice process and delivery standards are identified and adopted
• resourcing strategy and its implementation

About you

You will be an experienced Delivery Manager who can:

• help build the right environment for the mission teams to deliver in, collaborate, communicate, and focus on the most important outcomes
• improve processes and remove obstacles within the teams and outside of it, iterating the existing approaches and facilitating new ways of doing things
• ensure the teams have the right set of skills and provide direction on how that should change as the products are developed
• manage dependencies and risks across DBT and with other government departments to remove blockers or obstacles to delivery
• have a great understanding of agile practices and be able to adapt them to suit the teams you are working with and guide continual improvement
• line manage, mentor and coach other members of the professional community, your Platform leadership team, the delivery team, and possibly colleagues outside of DDaT

Main responsibilities

You will:

• act as support for all planning, strategic thinking and leadership team enablement by running workshops, brainstorming, solving various issues with senior members of the team (eg Service Owners, DDaT Heads of Professions, Portfolio Leads within DDaT professions)
• document portfolio processes and work with Service Owners, Product and Delivery Managers to define improvements
• advise, support and encourage mapping and understanding of wider stakeholder landscape
• work with the Lead Product Manager on high level planning of work, missions, timelines, dependencies and ensure this is in line with the overall platform strategy
• work with the Portfolio Service Owners and Lead Product Manager to deliver scoped and costed submissions for business planning
• work with HOPs to ensure business planning and continuity, alignment with their wider recruitment strategy
• ensure project plan is communicated and signed off by wider portfolio leadership team and business stakeholders
• ensure the teams deliver the agreed plan at pace and in the agreed timescales and that delivery across mission teams delivering value is led and optimised

Skills and experience

It is essential that you have:

• Agile and Lean practices - You are an expert in Agile and Lean practices and can coach and guide teams and an awareness of GDS standards
• Commercial Management - You act as the escalation point and resolve large or high-risk commercial management issues. You know how to coach others in appropriate commercial management
• Communication Skills - You can mediate between people and mend relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels. You can manage stakeholder expectations and moderate discussions about high risk and complexity, even within constrained timescales
• Financial Management - You know how to negotiate, influence or set budgets in complex environments; write and input into business-cases and communicate business-value propositions
• Maintaining Delivery Momentum - You can actively address the most complicated risks, issues, and dependencies even when ownership exists outside the team or is unclear
• Making the Process Work - You can identify and question organisational processes of increasing complexity. You can coach and guide teams to adapt to new processes and whilst being the main point of expertise
• Planning - You can manage a continual planning process in a very complex environment, planning beyond product delivery. You can identify dependencies in plans across services and co-ordinate delivery
• Team Dynamics and Collaboration - You can identify problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them. You can coach the team and individuals through development

Benefits

If you join DBT, you will get:

learning and development tailored to your role a flexible, hybrid working environment with options like condensed hours a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity a Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27% annual leave starting at 25 days rising to 30 days with service three paid volunteering days a year an employee benefits programme including cycle to work

Further information:

• This role requires you to undergo SC clearance where the requirement is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years.
• DBT does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship.

If you are an experienced Delivery Lead looking to enhance your career and make a difference across a function that will make a real difference to the UK economy, then apply today or contact Keesha Paulsen at Inspire People in complete confidence for further information.